Bernard H. Lavenda
Bernard Howard Lavenda (born September 18, 1945) is a retired professor of
chemical physics at the
University of Camerino and expert on irreversible
thermodynamics. He has contributed to many areas of physics, including that of
Brownian motion, and in the establishment of the statistical basis of
thermodynamics, and non-Euclidean geometrical theories of relativity. He was the scientific coordinator of the "European Thermodynamics Network" in the European Commission Program of Human Capital and Mobility. He was also a proponent for the establishment of, and scientific director of, a National (Italian) Centre for Thermodynamics, and has acted as scientific consultant to companies such as the
ENI Group, where he helped to found TEMA, a consulting firm for SNAM Progetti,
ENEA (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment), and the
Solar Energy Research Institute in
Golden, Colorado. He has had over 130 scientific papers published in international journals, some critical of the new fashions and modes in theoretical physics.
Professor Lavenda currently lives in
Trevignano Romano near Rome, is married with two adult children and two grandchildren, for whom his textbook "A New Perspective on Thermodynamics" is dedicated.
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